It is very important to understand your body’s constitution or type so that you know what foods to eat that are complementary and what foods to avoid. Body constitution can be classified into five types: hot, warm, neutral, cool and cold. With neutral in the center, hot and warm are yang types, and cool and cold are yin types.
了解自身的体质类型，以便知道适合吃什么，不适合吃什么。这点是非常重要的。人的体质分成五种类型：阳质、偏阳质、阴阳平和质、偏阴质、阴质。一般说来，阳质和偏阳质都属于偏阳质，而偏阴质、阴质都属于偏阴质。
Body type is usually determined by the following characteristics: If you are always hot and have warm hands and feet even in winter, always energetic and almost restless, underweight by at least 20 pounds, and have a high sex drive, you belong to the hot type. If you prefer summer to winter, are normally not tired, fairly active and enjoy sex more than food, you are the warm type. On the reverse, if you are always cold, with cold hands and feet even in summer, overweight by at least 20 pounds, normally tired, easy going and quite patient and have a low sex drive, you are the cold type. If you prefer winter to summer, just slightly overweight, normally lazy and fairly relaxed, and enjoy food more than sex, you belong to the cool type. If you have a combination of cool and warm symptoms, you are likely to have a neutral body type.
身体的类型一般都取决于以下几个特点：如果你在冬天的时候通常会感觉手脚发热，通常情况下精力充沛却焦躁不安，体重偏轻20斤，而且性欲旺盛，那么你应该是属于阳质。如果你在夏天的时候通常不会感觉疲乏，而且还相当有活力，并且食欲会更加旺盛，那么你是属于偏阳质。相反，如果你在夏天的时候总感觉手脚发冷，而且体重超重20斤，总是感觉疲乏，性格安静且随和，而且性欲很低，那么你是属于阴质。如果你在冬天的时候，体重稍微有点超重，经常犯懒，总感觉累，食欲很强，那么你属于阴质。如果你是综合了以上几点的话，就属于阴阳平和质。
Knowing your body type helps you choose foods to maintain good balance. A person with a yang body type should eat more yin foods and vice versa. A person having a yin body type and eating too much yin foods drives his or her body to a yin extreme.
了解你的体质有助于你更好的通过食物来使自己的身体达到一个很平衡的状态。阳质的人应该吃更多阴质的食物，阴质的人应该吃更多阳质的食物。如果一个阴质的人吃更多阴质的食物，或者一个阳质的人吃更多阳质的食物，那么他们的身体就会偏离平衡状态更远。 |
发表于 2010-7-9 08:03:00
